Mass Effect '5' speculation (Official Thread)

EDI was based on the "rogue VI" from Mars (which I still maintain turned into an AI - consider it akin to the geth themselves) *and* Reaper Tech.  I think it's that second aspect that allows the rules to be bent for her.  Also, EDI never fully entered the Eva body.  She always maintained that the majority of her mind remained in the Normandy.

Well, I see IT is still alive.

I don't think izut was advocating IT. Instead, she suggested that Control and Synthesis would have been the result of indoctrination. Choosing Destroy - the only path that would end the Reapers forever - was a free mind.

I don’t see that. I always choose one of those as my Paragon Shep.

If I were to guess, the difference is that in IT those choices don't actually happen since you haven't actually entered the Citadel yet while with their post they are saying those choices still happen it's just Shepard was indoctrinated as they did it.

Which is fine.  I'm just a hardcore believer that the Reapers should not be allowed to get away with genocide on a level that no being can even conceive of.  With Control, Synthesis and Refusal, they are given a pass on what they did.  With Destroy, they finally get what's coming to them.

Depends on whether or not you take Sovereign at face value. If you do, they have agency. Also, if you think it's not their fault, then Control isn't really good, either, since it takes their free will. Synthesis changes nothing in regard to their free choice since the Catalyst remains. Refusal also leaves them under Catalyst control. Any way you look at it, Destroy is the decision that stands on its own.

Assuming BioWare is not out of business by that time (which I sure hope they're not) I don't think we'll see an "Andromeda 2".
For starters, the title is ridiculous (no offense) even as a placeholder title, it sounds dumb > Mass Effect: Andromeda, version/edition 2? Think of "Skyrim 2" which is a joke title, but some people genuinely hoped for that, like what the heck.
Second, whether most here agree or not, the general consensus is that Andromeda was a flawed game, to the point of being plain bad, people got pissed. Bio sure wants a fresh start (again...), to not drag along old wounds and all that shit.

Not saying they'll ditch all the possible lore, or species, the journey, the characters, or some events of Andromeda, just saying that the next game may have mentions of it, but that'd be about all we get I think.
The reason they chose another galaxy was, I think, because they couldn't figure a way of continuing on the MW without making one of the absurdly ridiculous endings (aside from destruction, which was the whole point of the game btw) as canon, they went as far as saying that "no ending will ever be canon" which leads to the question of how on earth could you ever do a game set on the MW again if you don't plan on making a canon ending.

Honestly, I have no idea if they'll go to yet a different Galaxy in the next installment or they'll figure a clever way of making ME3 endings work for a new game set on the MW. But I think, Andromeda will be discarded for now. I don't think an Andromeda sequel is impossible, I just don't feel they would like to continue there for now, due to the "bad press" and all that the game got.
They will have to fix the mess they created in ME3 eventually, and I wont envy the person in charge of doing it when the time finally comes.

As for when the game will release, it's far fetched, honestly. We'll see the next DA first that's for sure, probably in 2021 or 22? 2020 if we're lucky. ME will be at least 3 more years after that, and only if they already started working on it way before.

yes technically, though its long since devolved into just a hangout spot

I can’t see how that would create bad press. Two Worlds is a great example. A very mixed reception game plagued with issues and it got a sequel that was reviewed better than the first and a third is in the works. Can’t let bad press and mistakes stop you. Biggest mistake would be ignoring MEA and retconning it.

The only way I see a sequel happening is if Bioware releases a few very well received games that bolster their reputation a bit, to offset the bad press from Andromeda.

There's no reason Sovereign would know he was an indoctrinated stooge. And I think Control's merely a wash -- if the available options are replacing one indoctrinated personality with another, the Reapers are left exactly where they were.  No other option because there isn't an independent personality to restore. You can find murdering them better on the merits, sure; that aspect's a rerun of Legion's LM, isn't it?